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As we all are aware of the cloud and how small businesses and companies are switching to the cloud. Its forsure that All the workloads and applications are going to be in the cloud by 2030. Cloud usage has increased tremendously in 2020 and beyond.
Learning the cloud concepts and their terminologies can be overwhelming, Before diving into cloud computing and understanding cloud services, I preferred to compare these top 3 cloud service providers. Although there is another provider as well, few I know are Alibaba Cloud, IBM cloud, oracle.
one must stick to only one cloud service, and should accelerate to another are per the future need.
- Compute services
| Service | AWS | Azure | GCP |
| Virtual servers | Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) | Virtual Machines | Compute Engine |
| PaaS, deploying apps | Elastic Beanstalk AWS Lightsail | Azure App Service | App Engine Environment |
| Autoscaling | Auto Scaling | Azure Autoscale VM Scale Sets | Autoscaling |
| VMware Cloud | VMware Cloud on AWS | Azure VMware Solution | VMware Cloud on GCP |
- Container services and serverless computing
| Service | AWS | Azure | GCP |
| Managed container services | EC2 Container Service (ECS) Amazon Kubernetes Service (EKS) | Azure Container Service (AKS) | Google Kubernetes Engine |
| Docker container registry | Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | Container Registry | Container Registry |
| Serverless container services | AWS Fargate | Azure Container Instances (ACI) | Google Cloud Run |
| Serverless/Function-as-a-Service | AWS Lambda | Azure Functions | Google Cloud Functions |
- Storage services
| Service | AWS | Azure | GCP |
| Object storage | Simple Storage Service (S3) | Azure Blob Storage | Google Cloud Storage |
| Block storage | Elastic Block Store (EBS) | Azure Disk Storage | Google Persistent Disks |
| Infrequent access/archive storage | S3 Glacier Deep Archive S3 Infrequent Access | Azure Archive Storage Azure Cool Blob Storage | Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Coldline, and Archive |
| File storage | Elastic File System (EFS) | Azure Files Google | Cloud Filestore |
| Bulk data | transport AWS Import/Export Service AWS Snow Family | Azure Import/Export Service Azure Data Box | Storage Transfer Service |
| Backup storage | AWS Backup | Azure Backup | Google Cloud Storage |
| Disaster recovery | Disaster Recovery | Disaster Recovery Cookbook | Site Recovery |
- Database services
| Service | AWS | Azure | GCP |
| Managed relational database as a service | Amazon RDS | SQL Managed Instances | Cloud SQL |
| With serverless options | Amazon Aurora | Azure SQL Database | Cloud Spanner |
| No SQL database as a service | Amazon DynamoDB | Azure Cosmos DB | Cloud Bigtable |
| In-Memory database services | Amazon ElastiCache | Azure Cache for Redis | Memorystore |
| Document database services | DocumentDB | Azure Cosmos DB | Filestore |
| Data warehouse services | Amazon Redshift | Azure Synapse | BigQuery |
| Data analysis services | Amazon Athena | Azure Synapse | BigQuery |
| Ledger services | Amazon QLDB | Azure Workbench | Cloud Spanner |
| Graph database services | Amazon Neptune | Neo4j (Azure Partner) | Cloud Bigtable |
- Network services
| Service | AWS | Azure | GCP |
| Global Content Delivery Networks (CDN) | Amazon CloudFront | Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) | Google Content Delivery Network (CDN) |
| Direct connection | AWS Direct Connect | Azure ExpressRoute | Google Cloud Interconnect |
| DNS | Amazon Route 53 | Azure DNS Traffic Manager | Google Cloud DNS |
| Load balancing | Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) | Azure Load Balancer Application Gateway | Cloud Load Balancer |
| Virtual private cloud network | Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | Virtual Networks (VNet) | Google Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) |
- Cloud security services
| Service | AWS | Azure | GCP |
| Authentication and authorization | Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Azure Active Directory | Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) |
| Web firewall | AWS Web Application Firewall | Azure Application Gateway Azure Firewall | Firewall Insights |
| Security assessment | Amazon Inspector AWS Security Hub | Azure Security Center | Cloud Security Command Center |
| Threat detection and monitoring | Amazon GuardDuty | Azure Advanced Threat Detection | Cloud Armor |
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